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Offseason simulations: You play GM

It's time for the annual series of Offseason Simulations where you get to play GM. Decide all the trades, FA signings, promotions, and demotions you think are necessary this offseason to prepare the team through the offseason. Send the list to me via PM and I'll post them along with a poll to allow others to comment on your ideas.

The rules are pretty simple.

PM your simulation to me. Don't post your own thread (I will delete it) or put your simulation in someone else's thread. This is not a power play, but an attempt to give everyone's ideas their due.

Specify all trades completely. Who do the Sox send from their roster or farm system and who do they receive. If money changes hands then indicate how much.

Payroll. The entire MLB roster (down to the 40-man list) needs to factor in whatever luxury tax rules exist within the new CBA.

Justify. Not necessarily required but it's usually helpful to explain how/why you think your moves make sense.

Ideally everyone uses a similar format to make it easier to read and compare one sim to the next. An order along these lines has generally worked pretty well:

Trades
FA/Arbitration Signings
Roster
Lineup(s)
Explanation

Just for clarification, the "official payroll" when calculating the luxury tax (a) includes every player on the 40-man roster, and (b) includes the average annual value of the player's contract. Option years are NOT included in the calculation, but buyouts are.

NOTE: 39 players are currently on the 40-man roster. There are 13 players of interest in the Red Sox system that are eligible for the rule 5 draft and must be added to the 40-man roster to be protected:

If you guys want, we can use the new 40-man on Tuesday since that's the deadline to protect players. I figure there's a decent chance they make a trade before then, which you might want to do differently in your sim.

Reminder: No much for reading directions....? "PM your simulation to me. Don't post your own thread (I will delete it) or put your simulation in someone else's thread. This is not a power play, but an attempt to give everyone's ideas their due."

Last edited by -Lavigne43-; 11-18-2012 at 02:20 PM.

6/27/09: “We expect [Rondo] to play by the rules and be a leader as a point guard. We need him to be more of a leader,” Ainge said. “There were just a couple situations where he was late this year, I don’t know if he was sitting in his car, but showed up late and the rest of the team was there. We have team rules and you have to be on time. He was fined for being late, he said he was stuck in traffic, and it’s just unacceptable.”

Reminder: No much for reading directions....? "PM your simulation to me. Don't post your own thread (I will delete it) or put your simulation in someone else's thread. This is not a power play, but an attempt to give everyone's ideas their due."

I don't really have a deadline, but I will probably start posting them around December 1st. That should be more than enough time.